Tales from the archive
The stories
The issues
A new world is born
The third video in our series to promote the BMJ's online archive now being fully searchable back to 1840 looks at Sir James Young Simpson, the man who discovered the anaesthetic properties of...
Surgery transformed
The fourth video in our series to promote the BMJ±s online archive now being fully searchable back to 1840 follows on from...
Death by mosquito
For the fifth video in our series we travel to the tropics to look at the beginning of our understanding of malaria. In 1900 Patrick Manson wrote a seminal paper in...
The TB trials
The man who stopped smoking
Richard Doll was a luminary of clinical research whose case control study, published in the BMJ in 1950, first identified smoking as an important cause of cancer and...
The woman who knew too much
Alice Stewart died one of Britain's foremost epidemiologists. However her recognition came late in her career, having spent her life fighting the establishment's...






